I am personally good with #1, but I have never seen any evidence that it would make any difference in poult production. The state spent 5 years, millions of dollars, took away thousands of man hours of hunting opportunities, and lost the Scotch WMA for the purpose of finding any sliver of evidence that early gobbler harvest was hurting populations. And they knew that they couldn't find anything on well managed private land, so the did the entire study on hard hunted, non-managed public land. And they found........ Nothing. Not a single fact to use to justify the restrictions they wanted. They had to say that they did it on "the opinion of experts." And we all know who the Expert is - if anyone else on the committee had disagreed they would have found themselves working in a place like Siberia.

I don't know of but 2 ways to accomplish #2. One would be to bring back fur in women's fashion, and that will be difficult. The other that would work would be to have a long season with a 5 bird limit to encourage people to manage for turkeys. That actually worked for about 75 years.

I don't get #3. Every amateur I know burns in late winter.